Atlanta Booms Amid Low Jobless Rate and Racial Tensions
An NEA profile portrays Atlanta as a booming hub with a 2 to 3 percent jobless rate, a network of 38 industrial parks, and ongoing skyscraper growth. Yet racial friction, wage gaps, and limited gains for Black residents persist as automation reshapes unskilled work and desegregation efforts continue.
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Georgia
Carl Canders
Atlanta
South
Center For
Ideas
Sanders
Birmingham
Ala
Jackson
Service Members Return Home as Vietnam Drawdown Begins
PFC Wayne J. Woodard of Glenville along with about 1,000 U.S. personnel are being sent home from Vietnam as the withdrawal of forces underway since December 3 reflects progress in training of Vietnamese troops. Woodard, a radio repairman with the U.S. Army Support Group, Vietnam, enlisted in 1962 and is a Glenville High School graduate. Other service members noted include Merle E. Knutson in Hawaii aboard the Airborne Early Warning Barrier Squadron Pacific, Pvt. Lloyd M. Leecher, and PFC Larry D. Hanson, 1st Armored Division at Fort Hood, Texas, cited for good conduct. Darwin Bawek serves aboard the USS Blue in Japan, with mailing address listed through Fleet Post Office in San Francisco.
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Republic of Vietnam
U.S
Woodard
U.S. Army Support Group
Vietnam
Army
Fort Leonard Wood
Fort Monmouth
N. J
Glenville High School
Larry D. Hanson
Goldie E. Hanson
Adams
1St Armored Division
Fort Hood
Texas
Hanson
46Th Infantry
Fort Carson
Colo
Adams Furniture
Shirley
Killeen
Darwin Bawek
Gilbert Bawek
1St Ave
Japan
Blue
C-O Fleet
San Francisco
Calif
Military and Public Service Personnel Notes
The item lists PFC Robert J. Thune RA 176 35804 at 26th Base Post Office APO 108 New York. Glen Wilson connected to Travaux Public Service. a Peace Corps member from Tappi in Tunisia. Richard James Weis on 15 day Navy leave living with parents at 1302 45th Ave SE and new address at Airferron 32 Naval Air Station North Ireland San Diego California.
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Robert J. Thune
Apo
New York
Glen Wilson
Travaux Public Service
Devana*e LeKus
Tunisia
Tappi
Peace Corps
Richard James Weis
U.S. Navy
James F. Weis
45Th Ave
S.A
Naval Air Station
North Ireland
San Deigo
Calif
Swift Earnings Up About Million
Swift & Co reports higher net earnings for the past year despite a small decline in sales. Net earnings reached 17.1 million dollars, 2.85 dollars per share, while sales volume fell to 2.4793 billion from 2.4983 billion. President Porter Jarvis outlined plant replacements, consolidations, relocations, and closing units with poor prospects. Average employment fell 3.4 percent to 52,400, down 33.7 percent from the 1955 peak.
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Chicago
Swift & Co
Porter Jarvis
Fire destroys rented home displacing Merseman family
Mr and Mrs Dean Merseman and their six children were forced from their home Tuesday when a fire consumed the rented dwelling. The cause of the blaze could not be determined.
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UNION
Dean Merseman
Faribault Youths Face Murder Arraignments
In Rice County Minnesota two 17 year olds were arraigned on murder charges after a grand jury indicted Ray Van Straaten on first degree murder for choking Rolene Madison 17 and Leslie Hammond on second degree murder for helping bury her. The defendants were Faribault High School students.
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Faribault
Minn
Rice County
Rolene Madison
Ray van Straaten
Leslie Hammond
Faribault High School
John Cahill
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Austin (Minn
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